Gavin Clarkson
published “Accredited Indians: Increasing the Flow of Private Equity
into Indian Country as a Domestic Emerging Market,” 80 Colorado
L Rev. 285 (2009). Dr. Clarkson, along with Lada Adamic and others, published
“The Impact of Boundary Spanning Scholarly Publications and Patents”
in PLoS One, a peer-reviewed journal published
by the Public Library of Science. Dr. Clarkson and David DeKorte had an article
accepted in the Illinois Law Review.
The article, “Unguarded Indians: The Complete Failure of the Post-Oliphant Guardian and the Dual-Edged Nature
of Parens Patriae,” discusses
the rampant problem of non-Indian on Indian crime prevalent throughout Indian
Country and makes the argument to return full criminal jurisdiction to tribal
governments. Dr. Clarkson and P.K. Toh had an article accepted by the Strategic Management Journal. The article,
“’Keep Out’ Signs: The Role of Deterrence in the Competition
for Resources,” examines the use of the patent reexamination process
as an element of corporate IP strategy. The SMJ is one of the premier peer-reviewed
journals for business schools.

Adam Gershowitz’s
co-authored article, “Imputed Liability for Supervising Prosecutors:
Applying the Military Doctrine of Command Responsibility to Reduce Prosecutorial
Misconduct” has been accepted for publication by the Berkeley
Journal of Criminal Law.

Gidi published
a book on Comparative Law from Foundation Press. He also presented papers
at the International Association of Civil Procedure in Toronto, at the Pan
American Institute of Civil Procedure in Goias, and at the Institute for International
and Comparative Law in Dallas.

Jim Hawkins’
article “Doctors As Bankers: Evidence from Fertility Markets”
was accepted for publication in the Tulane Law Review.

Craig Joyce published “William Cranch,” “Richard
Peters, Jr.,” and “Henry Wheaton” in the new Yale
Biographical Dictionary of American Law, as well as the 2009 Cumulative
Supplement to the Seventh Edition of his Copyright Lawcasebook.

Malikah
Marrus was nominated to be Field
Instructor of the Year from UH’s Graduate College of Social Work.

Douglas
Moll and Robert Ragazzo’sThe Law of Closely Held Corporations has
been published by Aspen Publishing. It is now available in fine bookstores
everywhere.

Gerry Moohr’s
article, “The Balance Among Corporate Criminal Liability, Private Civil
Suits, and Regulatory Enforcement,” will be published this autumn in
the American Criminal Law Review. She
is contributing a chapter on intellectual property crimes for a six-volume
work, Cybercrime: Issues, Cases
and Responses, edited by Sam McQuade and to be published next summer.
Also, she has been invited to present a paper on corporate criminal liability
at next summer’s SEALS conference.

Tom Oldham
published an article in the Texas Family Law Section Newsletter in September
about the abolition of “economic contribution” and its effect
on Texas family law cases.

Michael
A. Olivas spoke at the Suffolk
University Law School on his book on Hernandez v. Texas. In August, he convened
a working group of scholars and archivists at the New Mexico State Records
and Archives Collection, in Santa Fe, to discuss digitizing and placing in
the public domain all the legal and religious books published by the 19th
century NM cleric, Padre Jose A. Martinez, who served as the first publisher
and operated the first printing press west of the Mississippi in what is now
the United States. He has been reappointed to the AAUP Litigation Committee,
which advises the Association on filing amicus briefs in cases involving faculty
whose academic freedom and tenure have been threatened for their beliefs.
He appeared on NPR’s Marketplace,
discussing recent developments in Section 529 college savings plans.

Jordan Paust
was a member of a panel addressing “Accountability for the Torture Memos”
during a conference at Case Western University Law Center on September 11th.
His article, “Civil Liability of Bush, Cheney, et
al. for Torture, Cruel, Inhumane, and Degrading Treatment and Forced Disappearance,”
will be published in the Case Western
Reserve Journal of International Law (Dec. 2009).On September 18th, Professor Paust will
participate on a panel addressing presidential powers and international law
under the U.S. Constitution during Constitution Day at Rice University. His
essay, “Boumediene and Fundamental Principles of Constitutional Power,”
was published in 21 Regent University
Law Review 351-61 (2009), along with remarks made during a symposium last
year.

Ira B. Shepard
spoke on “Recent Developments in Federal Income Taxation” to the
Dallas Bar Association Tax Section, the Tax Alliance in Plano, and the American
Institute on Federal Taxation in Birmingham in June; to the Denver Tax Institute
– for the thirtieth consecutive year – in July; to the State Bar
of Texas Advanced Tax Law Course in August; and to the Houston Tax Roundtable
in September. The 2008 annual version of the outline on “Recent Developments”
he compiles with Marty McMahon of Florida and Dan Simmons of UC Davis was
published by the Florida Tax Review in July; it reached
number 2 on the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads on SSRN before it aged out
of the list.

Sandra Guerra
Thompson discussed immigration
law enforcement policy on the television show "Viva Houston" on Channel 2,
which aired on August 30th.

Greg Vetter
moderated the panel “Evaluating Copyright’s Role in Educating
Society” for the Second Annual Conference in Innovation and Communication
Law program held on August 21-22 at the University of Louisville School of
Law.In late July 2009, he presented “The
Law and Economics of Intellectual Property” for the Master of Business
Law Program at Friends University. On September 9th, he presented to the Law
Center Intellectual Property Student Organization as its lunch speaker.